Tangerine Dream

Hyperborea 2008

- Studio, released June 2008 -

Covers

CD release Germany 2008 Artwork: Edgar Froese	Download release 2008 Artwork: Edgar Froese
HQCD release Japan 2009 with obi	CD release Germany 2009

Tracks


		[a]
1.	No Man's Land [2008 re-recording]	9:43
2.	Hyperborea [2008 re-recording of Section 1, subtitled Part One on the 2009 re-release]	4:07
3.	Hyperborea [2008 re-recording of Section 2, subtitled Part Two on the 2009 re-release]	4:48
4.	Cinnamon Road [2008 re-recording]	3:52
5.	Sphinx Lightning [2008 re-recording]	19:12
Total running time		41:42

Details


Recording date	2008
Recording site(s)	Eastgate Studios (Vienna)
Recording engineer(s)	Christian Gstettner
Composer(s)	Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Johannes Schmoelling
Musician(s)	Edgar Froese
Producer(s)	Edgar Froese

Notes

Hyperborea 2008 is a re-recording of the original album Hyperborea (1983). It is part of a series of complete album re-recordings done by Edgar Froese that by now consists of the following releases:

Phaedra 2005 (2005)
Tangram 2008 (2008)
Hyperborea 2008 (2008)

The album features new cover artwork, completely different from the original design that had be done by Monika Froese. Though the track listing mentions just four compositions (identical to the original album), the recording consists of five tracks, as the title track Hyperborea has been split into two individual compositions. In fact the original composition consisted of two clearly distinguishable parts which had been connected by a short bridge only.

The Hyperborea 2008 Zoom-O-Graphic

The cover artwork is based on a Zoom-O-Graphic by Edgar Froese, titled WASTED-GOODS-ESCAPING-SLOWLY.

The Eastgate Music Shop about the CD release"We hope that all musical offers so far had some extraordinary moments for you. But now we're proud to present you something very special: Two re-recorded classics which are very highly rated not just among the die-heart community -- Hyperborea and Tangram. Both CDs will be limited editions and Eastgate Music will sell just 2,000 copies. (The new digipack version is not a limited edition, the Eastgate version in a clear tray has already been sold out!) These two new recordings will come with a story about the original recording sessions back in Berlin in 1980 and 1983.
If you want to know more about the character of the music on the 2008 versions -– listen to Hyper Sphinx live from the London show last year."

The booklet contains quite extensive liner notes by Bianca Acquaye:

About the album title: "The name Hyperborea derives from the Anthroposophical Philosophy. It teaches people about the five principle developments of mankind. The hyperborean -- the second period millions of years ago -- describes a status of the human race which just had started to build a kind of an ethnic human system."

About the original recording session: "The original recording session back in 1983 had a bitter-sweet aspect. TD's contract with Virgin expired and Hyperborea became the last official recording for them. The band itself was very much disillusioned in regards to some bizarre experiences with their record company but had to give them one more album. Despite the business situation, the band just came back from their second Australian tour filled up with experiences screaming to be transferred into sounds and music. Johannes and Edgar had just gotten the first two Waveterm units on the market. Incredible tools as far as new sound design techniques were concerned. Creating independend structures and rhythms while storing everything on big floppies -- back in 1983 a great luxury. The frustrating situation with Virgin could be sweetened a bit by working on a level of high spirits and with state-of-the-art equipment. Some critics said, if you listen to TD's music wall to wall you are in the middle of the most fruitful high tech development as far as music composing and performing is concerned. Hyperborea became another important chapter within the book of popular modern music." Notably this section completely ignores the fact that (besides Edgar Froese and Johannes Schmoelling) Chris Franke was member of the group at that time.

About the new version: "When starting the re-recording of Hyperborea in 2008 it had to be clear which way to go -- following the original tone by tone and sound by sound or analyzing everything in order to find a hybrid form of interpretation. So finally you recognize melodies, rhythms and sound colours -- but you are lead into a different atmosphere, not so much the sentiments of yesterday rather than tghe here and now. Most of the instruments from the first recording session do not exist anymore, but it is a huge advantage to still have the same studio engineer on board. A mass library of approximately 2 TB can serve you with all sounds you can think of since the first synth sound developments more than 40 years ago. Hyperborea 2008 has been a huge body of hand-made work as well as sound research but we believe it was woth it."

Regarding the initial Eastgate CD release, neither CD nor the paper inserts show any order number or barcode, but the number given below is the order number the Eastgate Music Shop lists this release.

In September 2008 this release became available as MP3 download at the Tangerine Dream Download Shop as well.

In March 2009 the album was re-released with different cover design as part of an extensive digipack series (consisting of a total of more than 60 CD and DVD releases) by the Germany based Membran record label. This release shows a corrected track listing consisting of five tracks. In May 2009 the album was re-released in Japan as part of a series of HiQualityCDs with mini LP paper sleeves.

Releases


Germany	2008: Eastgate CD: eastgate 029 CD; multicoloured disc; matrix code: 9233 east HB08; limited edition 2009: Membran CD: 232634; digipack
Japan	2009: WHD Entertainment HQCD: IECP-10171; cardboard sleeve, obi; limited edition Promo-HQCD: IECP-10171; same as regular release, but with additional red promo sticker
USA	2010: Purple Pyramid/Cleopatra CD: 9140-2
Worldwide	2008: Tangerine Dream Download Shop Download: complete release or individual tracks as MP3